Introduction to color correction in Nuke for compositors and artists | with
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2017
- I will show Grading basics in Nuke for Photographers and Artists. We will be opening Nuke, Lightroom and Da Vinci to show some basic concepts like Highlights, Mid Tones, Shadows, Primary Colour and Secondary Colour Correction. This video is sponsored by @AQCOLORbyBenQEurope and @BenQEurope
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Before watching: Oh man 1 hour, seriously?
After watching: Every second was worth it, I want more!
+Alisson Damasceno Ha ha ha, sorry, next time maybe I should split the full video. Could be easier to watch I think. Thanks so much for watching. If you want to get my videos before everyone else check out my Patreon. There are 2 new videos there. www.patreon.com/hugosdesk
I feel like I finally understand the logic and science behind color grading! You explained the math going on behind the scenes very well! Super well-made tutorial!!
Thank you Hugo! In my 20 years of Compositing, I have never seen someone describe these concepts in such and clear and relaxed manner. You have helped me break some bad habits and am I looking forward to more! #mustwatch
Thanks so much for your kind words. Much appreciated.
This video was over in a blink, i couldn't believe i was watching for 1 hour. Thanks for giving us ALOT of insights at this topic! The different scope views are a nice addition in understanding the total picture :D Obrigado!
Thanks Hugo!! This was VERY useful tutorial again! A lot of small but powerful tricks and hints!
Really great and so much informative in every step. this is pure knowledge, great to watch your videos.. would to live to watch them again and again to sock in more of it. thanks :)
I can't believe that I discovered this channel only yesterday... Great!
+Riccardo Bancone Thanks so much for the support. Means a lot to me. Don't forget to support the channel in Patreon if you can. A donation to keep the channel going is always appreciated. Thanks
Even now, props to ppl teaching on RUclips, I do follow & support a lot of channels related to my field. Your videos are still, hands down...or up..the best technically explained :)
It's amazing how with all your huge experience and extended knowledge you still manage to stay consistent and simple. Many thanks from Ukraine! :)
Hugo, this is amazing explanation of all time. Thanks brother for the best explanation I ever seen.
No problem, I am glad you enjoyed this.
1 hour of happiness thanks so much hugo!
I am your big fan from Colombia jaja
Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks so much hugo!
+Andres Felipe Grajales Salas Thanks so much for the support. It's always tricky making long videos. Some people really don't like long videos so. Maybe I should have split it up or made a short subject.
This is amazing! I've been looking for a tutorial that teaches these principles of grading and not just specific software. I don't mind the length at all, I would happily sit through 5 hours of this. I would love see more things like this!
+alexanderwurts Thanks so much for the kind words. Always worried about time since people only usually see the first 10-20 mins according to the stats on RUclips. If you want to have access to content early and some exclusive. Support me in Patreon: www.patreon.com/hugosdesk
Thanks Hugo! This definitely has been a great help to understand the basic and simple concepts of grading and color correction. Really looking forward to watching your Color theory and Colorspaces video!
+Viduttam Katkar Thanks so much. Glad you liked it. I would hope more people supported the channel in Patreon. It would help me to take time off of my work to make more tutorials. Thanks for the support.
Muchas gracias Hugo; he aprendido mucho con tus tutoriales. Thanks so muchos Hugo, I've learned with your videos.
Extremely useful! Thank you for sharing your knowledge :)
Thank you for this. You are a great teacher.
Excellent video, thanks a lot 🙏🏾🙏🏾❤
Thank you so much for this huge information. Very useful
awesome as always
I love this tutorials. thanks a lot
TNice tutorials is one of the best intro soft softs I've ever seen. The entire basic worksoftow with no B.S.!
Thanks so much for watching and saying that. Much appreciated
Thank you, Great explanation
Love your videos bro, really helps juniors to gain more knowledge!
Thanks so much for watching. Make sure to share.
So awesome! Thanks so much Hugo!
+Bronic Bednarek No problem. Thanks for the support.
Thank you so much you legend. That was a super amazing tutorial!!!
Thanks so much for watching. Happy new year 🥳
Great information here. I'm adopting the term "Software agnostic". Really helped me understand more the colorcorrection note
Thank you for sharing your creative wisdom Hugo!
Thank you for watching my video
Great video as always! Very informative. Thank you!!
+Miguel M. No problem. Thanks
I was searching for this kind of tutorial. Finally I got it. Thankyou thankyou and thankyou. Its best.
Thanks so much for watching. Glad you enjoyed it
This is just what i was looking for, great stuff thank you :)
+Charles Dockerill Glad I could help.
Thanks for sharing such a useful info.
thanks for your hard work and sharing knowledge.
great!
+Lesha You are welcome. More coming next week.
Thank you for this valuable lesson..
Thank you so much! Loved it! I like the idea of ''software agnostic''. Can't wait to drop it in a conversation, haha!
Thank you sir.
great tip of using radial and glow thank you sir and looking forward for more tutorials .............
Great videos.I really enjoy the way you teach this stuff.
+Joan Sariol Levy Thanks so much.
love this..thank u so much!
Thanks so much. Glade it helped. I am always worried these videos are too long.
I can’t believe I found this channel only 2 weeks ago best channel ever. I’ll soon work for u ;) write down my words ;) cheers.
Thanks so much for the kind words. And thanks for being a Patreon. Much appreciated it. Obrigado 😊
Thank you for sharing your knowledge sir
Thanks Dude
Great CC stuff tips it's much helping to understand that matters sir
Excellent tutorial! Thank you!
No problem, it’s getting old, I need to make a sequel with ACES some day
Thank you..... Hugo's Desk
Thank you Benq
As always A m a z i n g! Thank you so so much!
+Ivan Vivas Thanks mate
thank you so much!
Thanks Hugo! Very helpful...looking forward for more Nuke stuff! 😄
+EFXCO TRAINING & CERTIFICATION CENTRE Thanks so much. More to come next week. Hope you are doing well. Miss you mate.
Thanks so much for the words mate, hope all is going well with the school. Don't forget to support the channel in Patreon. A single $1 a month can help me keep the channel running. Thanks so much: www.patreon.com/HugoCGuerra
You are amazing! I love you hahahaha Tks a lot! Best Tutorials ever!! Muuuito obrigado!!
Thanks so much for your kind words
Thank you very much Hugo.
In just one hour you managed to answer a lot of questions that I'm sure many people like me had for a long long time.
Looking forward to the second part to this tutorial. I hope we can see more videos like this soon.
please let us dive deeper...
by the way you mentioned a problem with nuke's default scopes, would you care to explain more?
Really clear tutorial, thanks.
Thanks so much for watching
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Thnx dude, super helpful!
Thank you so much for watching.
Great tutorial!!
Thank you
Thanks again! Great stuff! Brigado. :)
Thanks so much for the kind words. Don't forget to support the channel in Patreon. $1 a month can help me keep the channel running. Thanks so much: www.patreon.com/HugoCGuerra
This is Gold!
Thanks
Omg, 1 hour, Great work! Thank you.
+igor bohonsky Glad you like it. Some people don't like long ones. Sorry about the length. I just had so much to say on this. It is really 2 videos. A introduction to grade and then a quick workshop grade at the end.
do you know any method to improve edges? (Card>Alpha>Premult>Zdefocus.)
You mean doing DOF in the 3D system of nuke or with CG in general. With CG in general check this out:ruclips.net/video/TkrbmaZoUSQ/видео.html&list=PLw7TZXbFAyfdHFSt5KTZf5zbMNavdYBVQ&index=7
really helpful. Thank you i solve my problem, Thanks again
Even though I use Natron this was super helpful for my problem, thank you very much.
Glad it helped!
Thank u.. This wonderful tutorial..
Please make more about colour greading..
just thanks hugo
Superb I have never seen this detailed tutorial of grading else where, I would love to see you making a tutorial on matching foreground with background
Great man its help me lot
Here to help. Thanks
Nice video very helpful
Thanks
thnx so much..its a very helpfull
+Bhushan Mali Thank you
Thanks for the great tutorial
No problem. Check out my other tutorials.
Sure! i will take a look in my free time :)
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Thanks Hugo :)
No problem. Thanks for watching
thx for sharing this Hugo i am not real nuke user ( actually flame user ) but your content are always Gold for me. thx a lot .Obrigado
+James Sénade Thanks so much for the kind words. It is true, most of this can be done in any app really.
Thank u Hugo...
+Shiva Krishna Thank you for the support.
great tuto and clean English
Awesome tut! it feel so short, although it lasts an houuur
Haha, I am glad you liked it. Keep an eye on my Patreon for new videos. Thanks
This is actually a great tut.
Thanks for saying that. Cheers
@@HugosDesk Hey Hugo, is there a direct continuation to this tutorial somewhere?
@@PawelGrzelak Well I guess that's my Nuke course on Kickstarter, it's 100 hours of this! The campaign is over now but I will be back next year
@@HugosDesk Found it. It's huuuge! It's probably not targeted at me since I am a 3d guy, who wants to use nuke for fast comps of my non-commercial works.
That introduction video was perfect. I see you have some videos for fast comping of 3d and I am definitely gonna check them out. Thanks for sharing quality content!
This is the most well explained color grading lesson I've seen. I finally feel like I understand the grade node. Thanks!
Can you share what your set up is to run Scopebox? I'm missing something and can't find any documentation.
Thanks so much for the kind words. Means a lot to me. Scopbox and Nuke can be used in 2 ways. A single Blackmagic card with SDI in/out and use it to loop the signal back to the machine. Or you can get 2 seperate cards, one for IN and one for OUT. My sugestion is to use a laptop or smaller machine just for the scopes so you don't use CPU/GPU power in the machine you worrking on. You know what I mean?
I personally use a Blackmagic Decklink Mini Monitor 4K PCI inside my main workstation to preview SDI 10-bit or HDMI 2.0 HDR. Then I use another card, this time a Decklink Mini Recorder 4K connected to another machine (a old Mac Mini server 2010) to "ingest" the signal to the ScopeBox software. This way ScopeBox, a pretty heavy software, is using the Mac Mini CPU to process the scopes in reatime, in fact this Mac Mini is only used for Scopes and as a ITunes server. Leaving my main workshtation free from having to deal with Nuke/Davinci, etc and ScopBox at the same time.
Maybe I should make a video about this...
Thanks for breaking that down! You're the best!
hey i started watching your tutorials..thats have very good information for compositing...thankyou for that..but i want to start learning about videography or cinematography.....my mean is pleas make one tutorial on camera setting for video shots..means colorspace,fps,size,aspact resio,file formats that's need for post porduction.whn we will compose it..i hope you understanding..you are providing very good knowledge keep going❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
hugo thank you so much for making this video !
I was having so much trouble understanding the grade node and other color correction tools in nuke and now I have a much clearer picture.
is there anything remotely similar to a 'Levels' adjustment layer from photoshop in Nuke ?
That was a super amazing tutorial! Thank you so much !! unfortunately the registration for your Nuke Compositing course 3.0 is closed, I hope there will be more !
Thanks. If you want you can still signup to our 'slacker' campaign. We will launch in a few days. Just message me on social media privately we let's talk. Cheers
@@HugosDeskOk, I wrote you in Patreon
@@HugosDesk Hello Hugo, to sign up for the section, where do we send you a message?
Hi Hugo, great video as always, very interesting !
Is there a way to find a playlist or a website with all the "private video" you might have uploaded ?
I'm scared I might have miss some awesome stuff ! Thanks
Thanks so much mate. Glad you liked it. This video will be unlisted for 1 month since it is a exclusive to BenQ. I will be listed later in the month. Thanks
thank you for this video Hugo
1)when would you use gain vs multiply if they essentially do the same thing?
2) how would control the fall-off of using lift (like a toe)? I'm coming from a photoshop background so I would set points in the curve to limit the area the lift affects. I guess I could do this in the colorlookup node but I'm curious what the workflow would be for something like the grade node? would you essentially have to use lift in combination with gamma/multiply to preserve the upper values? Or would you just use colorcorrect for that?
Great tutorial again, thanks. I use Nuke at work, but for other personal projects it would be great to use Nuke too for similar Grading purposes. Only got Final Cut to use which is fine, just don't have all the toys I usually have in Nuke, so can't do the Sharpening, Glows or Masks etc. as well or as easily as I can in Nuke. I don't know After Effects, Fusion or Da Vinci. So moral of the story is, I wish Nuke was affordable. Thanks.
+cobblesticks Thanks so much for the words. Glad you like the video. I wish The Foundry would make a subscription based model for Nuke. Everything else is so would be great if they would do that.
Hugo's Desk Yes. I agree but I have a feeling your wish may be granted in the near future. Keep up the great work Hugo.
Hi! Really appreciate for the great tutorial!
May I ask the 'PlogLin' in Colorspace in Read node? I have heard Slog 1/2/3 is log-curve that Sony uses, but I can't find any information of PlogLin.
Great video. Very informative.
Do you have a workflow for 3:1 compressed raw dng files from blackmagic cameras (URSA mini pro). Nuke won't read them natively so I'm currently converting them to exr in Resolve, but the file size doubles and I have to run all my footage through Resolve first.
+Bart Kuczewski I never use nuke to convert the RAW files. DaVinvi processes the files correctly. If you convert in nuke overall image quality is much worst. More blurry and without the dynamic range. I should make a video to show you guys.
Awesome tutorial, thank you.
A question, Without Nuke's vectorscope, how can I use a vectorscope? Is there any 3rd party application available?
Yes there is but you would need a video card like a Blackmagic Decklink ti output and input a signal. I have used this with great success: www.divergentmedia.com/scopebox Alternatively you could get hardware scopes like these: www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/smartview/scopes
Just to make it clear, the exposure node is mathematically different from the grade's node gain! Gain is linear, exposure is logarithmic. In Lightroom the exposure node clips the blacks when moved to the left as you can clearly see in the histogram, the white triangle is the indicator. Oh and by the way you did not mention the midtones/gamma adjustment in Lightroom, where is it?
Nevertheless good tutorial... kind regards
Thanks for that. Always forget this. I am so used to using fully linear softwares like Nuke that I sometimes forget I am not in Nuke, lol
Very good explanation, but I didn't agree with color correction logic with that actor in corridor scene. I think when background window was blown out it didn't pull my attention as much as now when detail is visible in window. Lighting that face was OK. I tested on myself several times - at first my attention goes to actors eyes, and then immediately to window. But very good tutorial nevertheless. I even got courage to buy Benq monitor thanks to you. At first it was unknown brand for me.
Thanks for watching. Well this video is about showing The basis of grade. The creative part is completely open for interpretation. Everyone would have their own creative opinion about how to grade and approach that shot I think.
What is the best making color correction Davici Resolve or Nuke ?
your explanation was so clear and understandable that i had to come back and look for your profile..........please how can i learn more from you
Thanks so much for your lovely comment. I’m doing live streams every Thursday so come by and hang out on the chat.
@HugosDesk I will be there every Thursday, please what's the West Africa time for the live stream?
could you show us the most important thing hollywood movies achieve: the hipass effect where the edges are extremely well defined, how do they do that?
Sure, but not sure it's only that treatment that makes Hollywood films look good. There are plenty of factors to make that possible. But thanks so much for the great suggestion. I can put that in my list of upcoming tutorials. Thanks for the suggestion.
35:18 you make color balance by grade node
it's working fine but I think you must down multiply to 0.5 because when you balanced by black and white level its make footage more brighten
and please, I want to see episode about color space and color management in nuke and davinci to understand this point
and don't miss aces color management
thanks +Hugo's Desk
Sir please can you make one tutorial about obj Texturing like elements 3d in nuke 🙏
I am curious, is there any specific reason you do not use Nukes built in waveform and vectorscope? Whats the difference between using nuke's versus the setup you have?
I use them sometimes. Here is a couple of reasons: They are very low resolution compared to real scopes. They also don’t playback in real time. Last thing, I use multiple applications so it’s easier to move from app to app and ‘see’ the same scope. Example, moving from Nuke to Nuke Studio to DaVinci and FCPX.
Hi Hugo, can you explain how you got ScopeBox to work with Nuke? Divergent says they don't support it directly. thanks
+Andrew Coleman Of course. I use a blackmagic Mini Recorder with SDI to feed the image to a separate Mac Mini. This machine is only running Nuke BG rendering and Scopes. I found using the same Mac Pro to run both SDI in and OUT was too taxing on the CPU. Maybe I should do a video about my setup. Many have asked.
Yeah, def would be interest to see.
sir kindly provide some practice footage
It's curious how on the internet, Color Correction is defined as the correction of what has been captured in camera and Grading the feel you get from a certain colorization..
instead on Nuke it works the opposite!
Who is wrong in this?
Referring to the part at the 18:35 th minute.
So you do this process before every shot you are working on and than render the final composite with your primary color correction before giving it to the client?
This video is to show basics of color correction it’s not a VFX pipeline video. VFX should always be done to in processed footage. So the CG lighting, HDRs and textures match the plate. Color correction is always done after. Thanks for watching
I just moved from AE. Everything is somewhat intuitive so far, and the OCIO workflow is way, way way way easier.
Now, I cannot deal at all with color in nuke. Jesus christ I fall short so quick.
what is the name of the vector scope that you are using ?
I am using the Blackmagic SmartScope Duo 4K www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/smartview/techspecs/W-HDL-07
Woow thank you so much 😘😘😘
nuke vs resolve for color grading cgi?
Resolve is much faster but only up to 16 bit, Nuke is much much slower but more precise and 32 bit float! They are very different! For grading as a colorist, go DaVinci, if you have time, Nuke is a good option!
@@HugosDesk thank you master :)
so litle views. damm it the world is upside down on youtude. this video is full of usefull tips.
+Bernardo Amorim Ha ha ha, maybe I should film my cats in the next video. Lol
Yes maybe. If you can comp them into a shakira kardashian video clip. I would bet they would definitly go way above 5million views....
das ist ja aber sehr meggggggggggggggggggggggga
XD
me i just wanna know what s so flatterring about mentioning maths among vfx people, this is an insult to maths
Not really sure what you mean? Compositing is basic math. What do you mean?
Hugo's Desk i mean that there is no math in there unless you call for example a news article as literature... anyway waiting your reply about the edges thing
Well, I will have to disagree. All operations in Nuke are math based. In fact, you can do complex math calculations using code or python inside Nuke (and on many VFX applications), in fact, I have many colleagues working in the VFX industry that has a math degree. They use their math skills in Houdini making simulations or even to make complex VFX shots possible.
Hugo's Desk the most complexe operations you might have are multiplying or adding values between 0 and 1... tell me what maths is that?... really.
Great tutorial, but the shot looks ... not so nice at the end
Well, I am teaching the nodes and I did it on the fly without really thinking too much about it! Anyway, follow the tutorial and make your own shot with the same principles!
@@HugosDesk Alright, alright, just could not leave out the oportunity to be an asshole and criticize a great and free tutorial :D
@@kleindavid9416 Haha, it's ok! I am used to it! I work with clients! haha. Anyway, that shot isn't' that great to begin with!
@@HugosDesk Shit, I got compared to a CLIENT! What a shame! And yes, the shot was difficult...